Nader Jahanbani

Nader Jahanbani
General Nader Jahanbani
Nickname(s)	The "Blue Eyed General"
Born	(1928-04-16)16 April 1928 Tehran, Iran
Died	13 March 1979(1979-03-13) (aged 50) Qasr Prison, Tehran, Iran
Buried at	Behesht-e Zahra
Allegiance	Iran
Service/branch	Imperial Iranian Air Force
Years of service	1952–1979
Rank	Lieutenant General
Commands held	Deputy Chief of the Imperial Iranian Air Force
Relations	Amanullah Jahanbani (father) Anushiravan Jahanbani (son) Golnar Jahanbani (daughter) Khosrow Jahanbani (brother) Shahnaz Pahlavi (sister in-law) Christiane Amanpour (niece in-law)
Other work	Commander of the Vahdati AFB in Khuzestan Commander of the Golden Crown

Sepahbod (General) Nader Jahanbani or Djahanbani (Persian: سپهبد نادر جهانبانی‎‎ Sepahbod Nāder-e Jahānbānī; 16 April 1928 – 13 March 1979) was a distinguished Iranian general and the deputy chief of the Imperial Iranian Air Force under the Chief Commander Amir Hossein Rabii and Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi. Despite being executed in 1979 by Islamic Revolutionaries, he is widely lauded as the "father of the Iranian Air Force" along with general Mohammad Khatami, for modernizing the Air Force to become a potent and powerful force whose advanced equipment and training he acquired for Iran, such as the F-14 Tomcat, would save Iran's crucial infrastructure during the Iran-Iraq War.

Jahanbani was born into a family with a long military history. His father, Amanullah Jahanbani, was a lieutenant general, who served in the Persian Cossack Brigade with Reza Shah Pahlavi. He was a Qajar prince, great grandson of Fath Ali Shah. Nader's mother, Helen Kasminsky, was from the Russian aristocracy in Petrograd. He had two brothers, Parviz, who was an officer in the Imperial Iranian Marines, and Khosrow, who married Shahnaz Pahlavi.

Nader Jahanbani had two children from two wives, a son, Anushiravan, from his first wife, Azar Etessam, and a daughter, Golnar, from his second wife, Farah Azam Zangeneh. Both children live in the United States.